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The parallel code NMAGIC is an implementation of a particle-based method to create made-to-measure models in agreement with observations of galaxies. It works by slowly correcting the particle weights of an evolving N-body system, until a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-30 Lucia Morganti , Ortwin Gerhard

We present a new C++ code for collisional N-body simulations of star clusters. The code uses the Hermite fourth-order scheme with block time steps, for advancing the particles in time, while the forces and neighboring particles are computed…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-08 Simos Konstantinidis , Kostas D. Kokkotas

We apply a halo velocity bias model, $\gamma_{f}$, within the Aemulus simulation suite for General Relativity (GR) to investigate its efficacy in identifying the signature of assembly bias and Modified Gravity (MG). In the investigation of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-01 Yirong Wang , Zhongxu Zhai , Xiaohu Yang , Jeremy L. Tinker

We investigate the possibility of generating initial conditions for cosmological N-body simulations by simulating a system whose correlations at thermal equilibrium approximate well those of cosmological density perturbations. The system is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Joyce , D. Levesque , B. Marcos

We introduce Project GIBLE (Gas Is Better resoLved around galaxiEs), a suite of cosmological zoom-in simulations where gas in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) is preferentially simulated at ultra-high numerical resolution. Our initial sample…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-24 Rahul Ramesh , Dylan Nelson

Numerical simulations are a key tool to decipher the dynamics of gravitation. Yet, they fail to spatially reproduce the Universe we observe, limiting comparison between observations and simulations to a statistical level. This is highly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-04 Aurélien Valade , Noam Libeskind , Daniel Pomarède , Richard Stiskalek , Yehuda Hoffman , Stefan Gottlöber , R. Brent Tully

We describe the newly written code GADGET which is suitable both for cosmological simulations of structure formation and for the simulation of interacting galaxies. GADGET evolves self-gravitating collisionless fluids with the traditional…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Volker Springel , Naoki Yoshida , Simon D. M. White

We examine the properties of the circumgalactic medium (CGM) at low redshift in a range of simulated Milky Way mass halos. The sample is comprised of seven idealized simulations, an adaptive mesh refinement cosmological zoom-in simulation,…

In this paper, we describe the implementation and performance of GreeM, a massively parallel TreePM code for large-scale cosmological N-body simulations. GreeM uses a recursive multi-section algorithm for domain decomposition. The size of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Tomoaki Ishiyama , Toshiyuki Fukushige , Junichiro Makino

Model-independent constraints on modified gravity models hitherto exist mainly on linear scales. A recently developed formalism presented a consistent parameterisation that is valid on all scales. Using this approach, we perform…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-15 Sankarshana Srinivasan , Daniel B Thomas , Francesco Pace , Richard Battye

Cosmological simulations involving the fully covariant gravitational dynamics may prove relevant in understanding relativistic/non-linear features and, therefore, in taking better advantage of the upcoming large scale structure survey data.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-15 David Daverio , Yves Dirian , Ermis Mitsou

Accurate predictions for the non-linear matter power spectrum are needed to confront theory with observations in current and near future weak lensing and galaxy clustering surveys. We propose a computationally cheap method to create an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-01 Hans Winther , Santiago Casas , Marco Baldi , Kazuya Koyama , Baojiu Li , Lucas Lombriser , Gong-Bo Zhao

Since its first formulation in 1983, Milgromian dynamics (MOND) has been very successful in predicting the gravitational potential of galaxies from the distribution of baryons alone, including general scaling relations and detailed rotation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Fabian Lüghausen , Benoit Famaey , Pavel Kroupa

In this work we systematically study the linear and nonlinear structure formation in chameleon theories of modified gravity, using a generic parameterisation which describes a large class of models using only 4 parameters. For this we have…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-24 Philippe Brax , Anne-C. Davis , Baojiu Li , Hans A. Winther , Gong-Bo Zhao

We investigate cosmological signatures of the minimal theory of massive gravity (MTMG). To this aim, we simulate the normal branch of the MTMG by employing the \textsc{Ramses} \mbox{$N$-body} code and extending it with an effective…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-29 R. Hagala , A. De Felice , D. F. Mota , S. Mukohyama

We discuss the performance of direct summation codes used in the simulation of astrophysical stellar systems on highly distributed architectures. These codes compute the gravitational interaction among stars in an exact way and have an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Alessia Gualandris , Simon Portegies Zwart , Alfredo Tirado-Ramos

We address the generation of initial conditions (ICs) for GRAMSES, a code for nonlinear general relativistic (GR) $N$-body cosmological simulations recently introduced in Ref. [1]. GRAMSES adopts a constant mean curvature slicing with a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-06 Cristian Barrera-Hinojosa , Baojiu Li

N-body simulations are essential for understanding the formation and evolution of structure in the Universe. However, the discrete nature of these simulations affects their accuracy when modelling collisionless systems. We introduce a new…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-18 Oliver Hahn , Raul E. Angulo

Measuring the sum of the three active neutrino masses, $M_\nu$, is one of the most important challenges in modern cosmology. Massive neutrinos imprint characteristic signatures on several cosmological observables in particular on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-25 Elena Giusarma , Mauricio Reyes Hurtado , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Siyu He , Shirley Ho , ChangHoon Hahn

In this series of papers we present an emulator-based halo model for the non-linear clustering of galaxies in modified gravity cosmologies. In the first paper, we present emulators for the following halo properties: the halo mass function,…